G7 Ambassadors Skip Nagasaki Memorial Over Israel Snub
The U.S., UK, German, and Italian ambassadors to Japan will skip Nagasaki’s annual August 9 commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing due to the city’s exclusion of Israel from...
Nagasaki
Remembering Saipan: The battle that reshaped the Pacific
Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years...
Op-eds
Our World: Obama’s nuclear contrition
On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Hiroshima. While there meeting with this G-7 counterparts, Kerry strongly hinted that his visit was a precursor to a visit to the site of the f...
Op-eds
Iran Deal’s Premise Is Wrong — They Likely Have a Bomb
Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry Cooper, Fritz Ermarth, Peter Vincent Pry President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is not just a bad deal. It is the wor...
Op-eds
America Needs Its Rough Men
In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...
Op-eds
Ali Khamenei’s Defiant Diatribe
While the Western media continue to speculate on the P5+1 negotiations in Geneva, the Iranian media tuned in to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ...
Policy Briefs
Reconsidering the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
It’s an ineffectual gesture that could do more harm than good.
Op-eds
Preemptive Disarmament
Where's realpolitik when you need it? Last September, when President Barack Obama chaired a United Nations Security Council summit themed around his dreams of a planet without nuclear weapon...
Op-eds
Should Those Behind Torture Be Prosecuted?
Imagine you are an intelligence officer in 2002, when journalist Daniel Pearl is being held captive by terrorists in Pakistan. You have an al Qaeda leader in custody. He knows who is holding Pear...
Op-eds
Iran’s Congo Connection
On July 31, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1696, which invoked Chapter VII of the world body's charter to demand that Iran to suspend all activities related to its pur...